BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka -- For over 30 years, Thangamuthu Jayasingam has had the number 158 etched in his memory as a painful legacy of Sri Lanka's civil war. It is the count of Tamil boys and men, ages 11 to 56, who were "disappeared" from a refugee camp at a national university in Batticaloa on the eastern corner of the island.
The victims' names are also seared in his mind, the botanist and former vice chancellor of Eastern University told Nikkei Asia in the living room of his house. "I also know the names of the military officers who took them away from the camp."
